From: "Taylor, Anneliese" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:05:18 +0000 **Cross-posted event announcement** The Quest for Reproducible Science: Issues in Research Transparency and Integrity - a 2016 ALCTS Preconference Friday, June 24, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Orlando, FL | event code: ALC3 The credibility of scientific findings is under attack. While this crisis has several causes, none is more common or correctable than the inability to replicate experimental and computational research. This preconference will feature scholars, librarians, and technologists who are attacking this problem through tools and techniques to manage data, enable research transparency, and promote reproducible science. Attendees will learn strategies for fostering and supporting transparent research practices at their institutions. Speakers . Victoria Stodden, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . Richard Ball, Associate Professor of Economics Haverford College . Harrison Dekker, Head, Library Data Lab, University of California, Berkeley . Garret Christensen, Assistant Project Scientist, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences & Data Science Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science CEGA . Eleni Castro, Research Coordinator, Data Acquisition and Archiving, Data Science Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science . Elizabeth Quigley, User Experience Lead, Data Science, Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science . Jake Carlson, Research Data Services Manager, University of Michigan Target Audience Digital initiative librarians, data curators, scholarly communications librarians, metadata librarians, repository managers, library liaisons, instructors, particularly in the social science, who teach or advise students on empirical research methods Registration Register through the ALA Annual Conference web site at http://2016.alaannual.org/register-now. Add this preconference to your conference registration or register for this preconference alone. The price of this full-day preconference is: . $219 for ALCTS members . $269 for ALA members . $319 for nonmembers Co-sponsors ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group ACRL Digital Curation Interest Group For more information, go to http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/ac/2016/reproduciblescience ********** Anneliese Taylor | Assistant Director, Scholarly Communications & Collections | Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group | University of California, San Francisco Library [log in to unmask]